Rev 22:18-19 ONLY apply to Revelation...
If you see it applying to all Scripture, that would mean that every preacher that ever mistranslated or misapplied any teaching at any point... is doomed to have plagues in their lives.
Similarly if any teacher downplayed any aspect of any portion of the Bible will have their name removed from the Book of Life.
Are you such a teacher or preacher?
If you EVER have misrepresented ANY portion of the Bible in the slightest you are guilty of one of these two curses.
Have you ever heard a preacher say... "What John meant to say here was..." (removing or adding words)... they would be under the curse of Rev 22:18-19.
But also Rev 22:18-19 has the qualifier phrase, that is often left out, of "the words of the prophecy of this book".
When John wrote Revelation... there was no New Testament Cannon. So "this book" would be Revelation and not the entire Bible(which didn't exist at that time).
The entire Bible is not all "prophecy", so the qualifying phrase would not apply to Genesis,Acts, Romans... but only to the prophetic books... This is your position if you are honest about it.
I think that the use of these two verses by most preachers/teachers is to bludgeon listeners into accepting the views of the preacher instead of what was intended. These verses are a curse by Jesus against the modification of this particular prophecy. And modification of the Revelation vision is all I see in the prophetic world today. Enjoy the curses of your Lord and Saviour.
It could mean the prophecy just found in the book of Revelation, or all prophecy that has been given in the book we call the Bible. Do I always get it right in what I teach, I would only hope so, but if I do error unknowingly the Holy Spirit always sends me correction so I can go back and correct myself. BTW, There is much prophecy given between Genesis and Revelation, but does not need to be debated.
You said: Have you ever heard a preacher say... "What John meant to say here was..." (removing or adding words)... they would be under the curse of Rev 22:18-19.
Yes, I have heard many say that, even in the forums and yes they are in danger if they are not allowing the Holy Spirit correct them.
Are we to believe everything that comes from the pulpit or should we Spiritually discern if it is a man's doctrine or the doctrines of Christ for that which has already been written.
BTW, the remark about me being cursed is within God's judgement, not yours.
1Jn 2:24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
1Jn 2:25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
1Jn 2:26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
1Jn 2:27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
1Jn 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
1Jn 4:2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
1Jn 4:3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
1Jn 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
1Jn 4:5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
1Jn 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.